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ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL PROBLEMS IN THE ANTI-JAPONESE WAR
tioned have arable land, so we stipulate that each provisions unit
should carry out agricultural production according to its manpower
and the land situation.
(2) In circumstances where the army is stationed in one place,
each provisions unit only needs three cooks for every hundred men.
Therefore each provisions unit can select six or seven strong comrades
with agricultural experience from among the cooks to specialize
in farming.
(3) The deputy battalion head with responsibility for production
in each battalion, the head of the special duties in each company,
and the deputy officers with responsibility for production in the brigade
and regiments have the task of planning and inspection. Dur-
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ing spring ploughing, summer weeding and autumn harvesting, they
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should organize and lead all personnel to take part.
(4) We stipulate that the provisions unit of each combat company,
apart from supplying all their own vegetables, should plant
600 mou of grain. Table 8.3 (see page 420) lays down the tasks each
unit can shoulder.
(B) The year’s plan relies on the spring. This winter we must
prepare for the work of the coming spring.
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(1) Each provisions unit must make a clear register of the land
to be planted, how much mountain land, how much river land, how
much land that has been farmed, and how much uncultivated land.
It must also work out what is going to be planted and how much
work, seed and so forth will be required for planting, hoeing and
harvesting.
(2) Farming requires oxen, ploughs, and other agricultural tools
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baskets and sickles. These should be fully prepared
in winter. Actual requirements per provisions unit are three
plough-oxen, three ploughs and sixty other implements.
(3) If you do not use manure, the crops do not grow well. Every
unit must collect manure. All nightsoil, animal manure, and wood
and straw ashes must be gathered. Pay attention to control of lavatories,
pig-sties, sheep-pens, and oxen and horse-stables. We must
put at least 4 tan of manure on each mou of land. In many places
there are grass roots from flooded land and tree leaves. These can
be moved to the farmed land for burning.
Table 8.4 (see page 420) lists the amount of preparatory work to
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